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The Ministers’ War - John W. Mears, the Oneida Community, and the Crusade for Public Morality (Paperback)
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The Ministers’ War - John W. Mears, the Oneida Community, and the Crusade for Public Morality (Paperback)
Series: New York State Series
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Unbridled passions threatened nineteenth-century America, a
vulnerable young nation already feeling beset by foreigners,
corruption, and disease. Purifying crusaders like Hamilton College
philosophy professor and Presbyterian minister John W. Mears
mobilized to fight every sin and carnal lure, from liquor to free
love. In Upstate New York’s famed Oneida Community, Mears
encountered his stiffest challenge. Oneida’s founder and
patriarch, John Humphrey Noyes, oversaw a radical Christian commune
where men and women sexually mingled through the practice of
""complex marriage."" While others struggled to dislodge the
community that had evolved since 1848 into a successful business
venture and congenial neighbor, it was Mears who, after years of
trying, rallied New York’s church and university leaders for a
final, concerted anti-Oneida campaign. In The Ministers’ War,
Doyle traces the full story of Mears and the crusade against the
Oneida Community. He explores the ways in which Mears’s
multipurpose zeal reflected the passions behind the
nineteenth-century temperance movement, the fight against
obscenity, and the public animus toward unconventional thought. As
an author, political candidate, and controversialist, Mears was a
prominent moralizer at a time when public morality seemed to be
most at risk.
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